...it is that that they have a reputation for spanning their articles over 3 or 4 times as many pages as they should in a blatant attempt to get more 'clickthroughs' or 'eyeballs' or whatever they call it.
Have you seen the new layout that Gawker Media blogs are using now? It's designed specifically to get more click throughs. They put half of the content for an article compared to what they used to. Now, instead of reading the summary and deciding whether or not to click read the rest, they don't even put enough of the summary there for you to make that decision, which means you need to click the link to get a fully summary. Also, they have a flash video player that loads a new page when you click anywhere on it. This is particularly deceiving because not only do these look like youtube videos, but they also have a gigantic play button on them. Why put a play button on a video if it's only going to open a link?
The only Wii game that looks fun at the moment is the Paper Mario, but I can't fucking find a Wii, and as time goes on I believe more and more Nintendo is deliberately exacerbating the shortage, so they can basically blow me at this point. I played Twilight Princess on the GameCube, so there's not even that now.
I'll admit that there seems to be a Wii drought right now, but a few up coming games look like they should be good. Resident Evil - Umbrella Chronicles looks like it should be fun, if you're into light gun shooters (I know I've put way too much money into House of the Dead arcade machines.) Also, Super Smash Bros is supposed to be out by the end of the year. And while it's still probably a ways off, de Blob looks like it could be a fantastic game.
The used to sell it in the North Olmstead CompUSA before it got shut down. A friend of mine said they sold the bawls in cans at Target, but that's in the Akron area. Now, I get my occasional bawls fix from amazon.oom or thinkgeek.com, especially since they carry the more diabetic friendly sugar free version.
That reminds me of something Chris Rock once said in one of his stand up specials. It went something like
In the black community, you get more respect coming out of jail then you do coming out of school. "Hey man, I got my masters!" "So you my master now? Well, let me ask you this, can you kick my ass?"
1) It's not all about uniqueness. While having a heterogeneous environment can help security, it's not the end-all, be-all. What makes Linux/BSD and various other open source projects secure is the fact that people are constantly reviewing the code so if a vulnerability is found, it can be patched quickly. It also helps that the whole security model on Unix and Unix like systems is more secure than Windows. Is any functional system perfectly secure? No, but some are better than others.
2) The idea of using ciphers for software on a system is interesting, but I don't think it would be usable. To make one system unique enough to keep it safe from attacks would probably also render it incompatible with other systems, though I suppose some sort of virtualized environment could potentially alleviate problems. It should be noted that I do, by no means, consider myself a security nor programming expert. If anybody else wants to step in and correct me, please feel free. I'd appreciate the knowledge.
3) Apple doesn't encrypt any body's personal information on the music that you download from iTunes. They have always included your email address in the track since the service launched, but this has always been in plain text. You can use standard Unix command line utilities to dump the information and see exactly what it is. If one were to download the un-DRMed tracks, it wouldn't be that difficult to strip off any personally identifiable meta-data since the AAC track is no longer encrypted with FairPlay (Apple's DRM that it uses on the iTunes store).
Personally, I'd be preferential to a time-out editing system. Say 2-3 minutes, then make it take 5 minutes for the comment to show up on a story. That way you could go back and quickly edit something, but you wouldn't be able to change the comment after it's modded.
In the same vein, I picked up a LaserJet 5p up off of eBay a number of years ago for something like $40. Adding a wireless print server means all of my computers can print to it.
I assume that iPhone will support smtp, pop, and imap, just like mail.app. What may not work is the web interface to MS Exchange, which in my experience requires IE, though it is no more complex than gmail.
My last job was at an all Microsoft shop so we used Exchange. The web interface worked fine in Safari and Firefox (though Netscape 7 and 8 bombed out on it). If you use IE, however, it would use the Active X version of the site and would work closer to Outlook than a web app.
A number of years ago, Intel was selling their "Pentium 4 Extreme Edition" for $1000. From what I remember, it was essentially a regular P4 with a ton of cache on it. (If anybody remembers if there was anything significantly different, feel free to add/correct.) As they say, the more things change...
It should be noted that the entire trilogy is available for free for Windows, Linux, and OS X from Bungie (Source code is available too, in case anybody was wondering)
This reminds me of one of David Cross'es stand ups routines.
David: I don't mean to sound like a suck up, but I think women are much smarter than men. I also think that dogs are smarter than women
Woman in audience:I don't believe that
David:You don't think that it's true? You don't think I've done research? Well, you're right. It's not true. That's what's known as a joke. I'll be telling a few of them here tonight.
I double clicked a movie in Ubuntu, that Totem thing popped up with some nasty error message.
I'll grant you I don't like the default choices, as I install PowerDVD on my windows boxes rather than using Media Player, I usually install Ogle on Linux/BSD. Works just fine. I have something else I do for auto-playing DVDs, but I wouldn't call it easy for a normal user... (a shell script on the desktop titled DVD with 'vlc dvd:///dev/dvd/')
I double clicked an MP3, no play.
I use XMMS, no problem with MP3s there. But then again, I use Winamp instead of WMP in Windows also.
His problems are most likely due to the fact that the codecs aren't installed. On a default Ubuntu install, you can't play back MP3s because they don't install the codec. It doesn't matter which program you use.
Not so! X was developed in 1984 at MIT. The current X11 version was released in 1987. Windows 1.01 was released in 1985.
The oldest Linux desktop environment still in common use is KDE, which is about 2 years younger than the Windows GUI.
So which is it? Is *nix GUI older or younger than the Windows GUI? It could be argued that X, by itself, isn't much of a GUI. You still need some sort of window manager (and probably desktop environment), whether it be Window Maker, KDE, Gnome, Xfce, etc.
You have to remember that Cable/DSL penetration wasn't nearly as high as it is now when Napster was at it's peak usage. Then again, I'm sure many of its users were students at colleges and universities.
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...it is that that they have a reputation for spanning their articles over 3 or 4 times as many pages as they should in a blatant attempt to get more 'clickthroughs' or 'eyeballs' or whatever they call it.
Have you seen the new layout that Gawker Media blogs are using now? It's designed specifically to get more click throughs. They put half of the content for an article compared to what they used to. Now, instead of reading the summary and deciding whether or not to click read the rest, they don't even put enough of the summary there for you to make that decision, which means you need to click the link to get a fully summary. Also, they have a flash video player that loads a new page when you click anywhere on it. This is particularly deceiving because not only do these look like youtube videos, but they also have a gigantic play button on them. Why put a play button on a video if it's only going to open a link?
I enjoy watching the fights that occur in other country's congressional houses.
To quote Robin Williams, "British Parliament is like Congress with a two drink minimum."
Disney has Pixar, which, whether or not you normally like Disney, put out high quality movies. (In my opinion, anyway)
The only Wii game that looks fun at the moment is the Paper Mario, but I can't fucking find a Wii, and as time goes on I believe more and more Nintendo is deliberately exacerbating the shortage, so they can basically blow me at this point. I played Twilight Princess on the GameCube, so there's not even that now.
I'll admit that there seems to be a Wii drought right now, but a few up coming games look like they should be good. Resident Evil - Umbrella Chronicles looks like it should be fun, if you're into light gun shooters (I know I've put way too much money into House of the Dead arcade machines.) Also, Super Smash Bros is supposed to be out by the end of the year. And while it's still probably a ways off, de Blob looks like it could be a fantastic game.
Well, how about "Slashot, going down hill since 1997" ?
The used to sell it in the North Olmstead CompUSA before it got shut down. A friend of mine said they sold the bawls in cans at Target, but that's in the Akron area. Now, I get my occasional bawls fix from amazon.oom or thinkgeek.com, especially since they carry the more diabetic friendly sugar free version.
I can verify that Firefox (at least 2.0) works on Windows 98. It's a little slow, but usable.
Repeat after me - Sentences begin with capital letters. I, when referring to yourself, is always capitalized.
http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/ There you go. Apple makes their manuals available online.
1) It's not all about uniqueness. While having a heterogeneous environment can help security, it's not the end-all, be-all. What makes Linux/BSD and various other open source projects secure is the fact that people are constantly reviewing the code so if a vulnerability is found, it can be patched quickly. It also helps that the whole security model on Unix and Unix like systems is more secure than Windows. Is any functional system perfectly secure? No, but some are better than others.
2) The idea of using ciphers for software on a system is interesting, but I don't think it would be usable. To make one system unique enough to keep it safe from attacks would probably also render it incompatible with other systems, though I suppose some sort of virtualized environment could potentially alleviate problems. It should be noted that I do, by no means, consider myself a security nor programming expert. If anybody else wants to step in and correct me, please feel free. I'd appreciate the knowledge.
3) Apple doesn't encrypt any body's personal information on the music that you download from iTunes. They have always included your email address in the track since the service launched, but this has always been in plain text. You can use standard Unix command line utilities to dump the information and see exactly what it is. If one were to download the un-DRMed tracks, it wouldn't be that difficult to strip off any personally identifiable meta-data since the AAC track is no longer encrypted with FairPlay (Apple's DRM that it uses on the iTunes store).
Personally, I'd be preferential to a time-out editing system. Say 2-3 minutes, then make it take 5 minutes for the comment to show up on a story. That way you could go back and quickly edit something, but you wouldn't be able to change the comment after it's modded.
In the same vein, I picked up a LaserJet 5p up off of eBay a number of years ago for something like $40. Adding a wireless print server means all of my computers can print to it.
I assume that iPhone will support smtp, pop, and imap, just like mail.app. What may not work is the web interface to MS Exchange, which in my experience requires IE, though it is no more complex than gmail.
My last job was at an all Microsoft shop so we used Exchange. The web interface worked fine in Safari and Firefox (though Netscape 7 and 8 bombed out on it). If you use IE, however, it would use the Active X version of the site and would work closer to Outlook than a web app.
A number of years ago, Intel was selling their "Pentium 4 Extreme Edition" for $1000. From what I remember, it was essentially a regular P4 with a ton of cache on it. (If anybody remembers if there was anything significantly different, feel free to add/correct.) As they say, the more things change...
It should be noted that the entire trilogy is available for free for Windows, Linux, and OS X from Bungie (Source code is available too, in case anybody was wondering)
...Trillian is a windows only IM app. You are aware of that, right?
But then once in a while, some among us elevated to a higher plane
;)
So that would explain the smell, emacs users are in fact dead. They don't just smell that way!
...as in "eats paste" special?
If anything, it's an attempt to sell machines to people who wouldn't otherwise even consider buying from dell.
I'm in that group. However, I worry that if I buy a Dell, that it and my Mac may try to kill each other while I'm at work...
His problems are most likely due to the fact that the codecs aren't installed. On a default Ubuntu install, you can't play back MP3s because they don't install the codec. It doesn't matter which program you use.
Q: How old is Linux? A: Time Paradox!
So which is it? Is *nix GUI older or younger than the Windows GUI? It could be argued that X, by itself, isn't much of a GUI. You still need some sort of window manager (and probably desktop environment), whether it be Window Maker, KDE, Gnome, Xfce, etc.
You have to remember that Cable/DSL penetration wasn't nearly as high as it is now when Napster was at it's peak usage. Then again, I'm sure many of its users were students at colleges and universities.